n. an abject coward

n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

adj. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser

n. a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe

n. one that is absent or not in residence

n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

n. a person who dissents from some established policy

n. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

n. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

n. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

adj. having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

adj. not faithful to religion or party or cause

adj. designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"

adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray

adj. filled with fear or apprehension; "afraid even to turn his head"; "suddenly looked afraid"; "afraid for his life"; "afraid of snakes"; "afraid to ask questions"

adj. showing fear and lack of confidence

adj. showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"

adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

adj. having deserted your post or station without leave

adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government

adj. consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny; "mutinous acts"; "mutinous thoughts"; "a mutinous speech"

adj. participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy"

adj. having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

adj. easily frightened

adj. despicably cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

adj. lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"

adj. in a state of cowardly fright

adj. characterized by complete cowardliness

adj. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

adj. steadfast in allegiance or duty; "loyal subjects"; "loyal friends stood by him"

adj. possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"

adj. restoring confidence and relieving anxiety; "a very reassuring remark"

adj. capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"